“Brooks loves to shatter conventional notions of the human capacity for strength and endurance.”

—Dance Magazine

Brian Brooks is a daring choreographer, concocting precise,
kinetic, and volatile sequences of movement that test the threshold
of physical endurance. In Run Don’t Run, Brooks (recently
awarded a 2013 Guggenheim Fellowship) employs rapid-fire partnering
to explore the spatial contradictions of bodies in motion. Behind a
blur of color—created by hundreds of cloth strands stretched across
the stage—dancers ricochet off one another in a strobe-like flurry
of actions: captured, suspended, and broken apart. Microphones
installed throughout the space pick up every sound, amplifying the
laws of gravity and inertia, as the dancers transgress space and
time.

Music by Christopher Lancaster
Lighting design by Joe Levasseur
Installation design by Brian Brooks and Philip Treviño
Costume design by Karen Young